About the Authors

Goodarz Danaei

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric B. Rimm

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shefali Oza

Affiliation Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sandeep C. Kulkarni

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christopher J. L. Murray

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Majid Ezzati

majid_ezzati@harvard.edu

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: GD EBR SO SCK CJLM ME. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: GD EBR SO SCK CJLM ME. Designed the experiments/the study: GD CJLM ME. Analyzed the data: GD SO SCK. Wrote the first draft of the paper: GD ME. Contributed to the writing of the paper: EBR CJLM. Supervised research: ME.